Governing through visions: Evaluating the performativity of the European gas target models

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 35, Issue , 2018, Pages 193-204

  Dignum, Marloes ^a   Correljé, Aad ^a   Groenleer, Martijn ^b   Scholten, Daniel ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EU gas market; Gas target model; Governance; Technological visions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034750314     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.10.016     Document Type: Article

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